I don't trust Google!
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Deleted User last edited by
Originally posted by Acryion:
This topic is hilarious
Indeed it is. :lol: Anyone who thinks he can be online in this day and age and avoid having his/her privacy compromised is living in the Twilight Zone. We are tracked in a multitude of ways and frankly... who cares? I think we've blown this way out of proportion. As I mentioned, I welcome being served ads that apply directly to me. Sure they want to sell me things. Why not? Do we honestly believe that this ride is for free? If we don't pay for the product, "we" are the product. It makes me laugh when I hear someone say that he won't use Google because he doesn't trust them. What does he think is happening to his privacy and identity when he uses a credit card? when he shows his license or enters his social security number on a job application? There is NO privacy anymore... period. Deal with it.:rolleyes:
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acryion last edited by
Well, unless you have some serious bandwidth and CPU power, you can try setting up TOR and using that. But how paranoid can you get?
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cwizard last edited by
Sad, disturbing and frighting how willingly some people are to give up their privacy or, in this case, are they nothing more than shills for a questionable, at best, product?
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Deleted User last edited by
I understand that one can attempt to "deal" with decreased security and also "resign" and do nothing. The latter is not dealing.
A normal ISP would first have to become interested in what a customer is doing, because they used too much bandwidth, tried to disrupt the network, or a report about abuse was received. They have better things to do that add storage capacity or spend hours spying on everyone. The government can't be bothered to make agreements with small ISPs to get access to the data as they can from big businesses. The would rather make people "pliable" and have them trust their data to Google.
As said above, one can use TOR to increse security, and also use simple encryption on their communication, which indeed can be broken, but, again, the attacking parties would first have a good reason to look into the matter. On Google and the other cloud services, all data is like an open book for the government. They own the data then, and you the user, can only plead for a slightly better privacy policy, and ask ask the govmn't to give some access back to your photos or whatnot. If everyone signed up and fully relied on google et al, the disturbing picture you are trying to convey, would have indeed be true, like a self fulfilling prophecy. Not because you connected to the internet, but because you believed that the goverment, the most powerful bully, can already see everything.
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Deleted User last edited by
Originally posted by cwizard:
Sad, disturbing and frighting how willingly some people are to give up their privacy or, in this case, are they nothing more than shills for a questionable, at best, product?
LOL... you don't get it, do you. It's not a case of "giving up one's privacy" willingly. Your privacy is GONE... fffftttt! There is NOTHING you can do about it. If you think that extensions like Ghostery and Weboftrust and a host of other programs (and lame Do Not Track check lists) will preserve your privacy... Man, you're deluding yourself. We live in an insecure, very public world where privacy is no more. If you are that concerned, cut all your credit cards up, pull the plug on your computer, ask for your dental and medical documents (which you won't receive since they are not your property) etc etc and then realize something: you are STILL very well known and documented and tracked by companies and governments... period. Blaming Google is a joke. They're all compromising your privacy.
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spartaa last edited by
i would suggest Go agent / google agent if to improve more security.
https://code.google.com/p/goagent/its free , but so does like another VPN / anonymity services. :left:
they can see everything .
security with sacrificing privacy.
sounds like a nice dealoops did i say privacy?
i forgot we have no privacy in internet ...
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cwizard last edited by
Originally posted by leushino:
Originally posted by cwizard:
Sad, disturbing and frighting how willingly some people are to give up their privacy or, in this case, are they nothing more than shills for a questionable, at best, product?
... They're all compromising your privacy.
Ah, so that makes it alright for Opera to do the same? Are you an employee or share holder?
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but after over 1,300 posts you are starting to sound like a shill.shill (sh¹l) Slang. n. 1. One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle. --shill v. shilled, shill·ing, shills. --intr. 1. To act as a shill. --tr. 1. To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise). 2. To lure (a person) into a swindle.
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aleksod last edited by
Originally posted by Guest703:
You don't have to worry about Google tracking
Especially when we have NSA snooping around the intertubes! :lol:
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slplfever last edited by
Are you talking about Google chrome?
Actually chrome is a mess when compared to Opera and Firefox.Google Chrome is created just to market their own products IMO. i don't see any difference although some people saying it is faster.
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stng last edited by
Google Chrome is more likely some kind of a "legalized" malware that was ordered by the NSA, CIA and other 'good guys'.
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